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Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

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Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

By: Penelope J Corfield,Penelope J. Corfield

The modern professions have a long history that predates the development of formal institutions and examinations in the nineteenth century. Long before the Victorian era the emergent professions wielded power through their specialist knowledge and set up informal mechanisms of control and self-regulation. Penelope Corfield devotes a chapter each to lawyers, clerics and doctors and makes reference to many other professionals - teachers, apothecaries, governesses, army officers and others. She shows how as the professions gained in power and influence, so they were challenged increasingly by satire and ridicule. Corfield's analysis of the rise of the professions during this period centres on a discussion of the philosophical questions arising from the complex relationship between power and knowledge.

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Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

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The Georgians

The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-century Britain

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The Georgians

The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-century Britain

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A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world's first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain's role in the international trade in enslaved Africans. But how were these changes perceived by people at the time? And how do their viewpoints compare with attitudes today? In this wide-ranging history, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life--politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and science, industry and towns. People's responses at the time were often divided. Pessimists saw loss and decline, while optimists saw improvements and light. Out of such tensions came the Georgian culture of both experiment and resistance. Corfield emphasizes those elements of deep continuity that persisted even within major changes, and shows how new developments were challenged if their human consequences proved dire.

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Yale University Press

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The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-century Britain

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Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

The Georgians

The Georgians

The Georgians

The Georgians

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